Financial Market Regulation - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive Measuring the Perceived Liquidity of the Corporate Bond Market Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

07 Jan 2016
News

Helping Property Owners Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

HBS, around everything that matters. So we’re talking about marketing strategy, human resources, financial strategy, operations of a business, technology strategy—so all of that has been very valuable and... View Details

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

contrast, we don’t find evidence of a secular shift in the cross-country correlations of stock market volatility shocks, which have remained fairly low through time except during the financial crisis of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

everything—was reportedly in conversations to buy some of those storefronts—possibly its first real beach-head in the brick-and-mortar world. As harbingers of the future of retail, these events certainly caught the attention of Harvard Business School View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

24 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

January 2017 Review of Financial Studies Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns By: Chang, Tom Y., Samuel M. Hartzmark, David H. Solomon, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—We present evidence consistent... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2007
News

Subprime Time

With markets reeling in the wake of the subprime mortgage fiasco, BusinessWeek (September 3, 2007) turned to Wall Street eminence and Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein (MBA ’71) for “much needed perspective on the current turmoil.” Asked about... View Details

Keywords: Bruce Wasserstein, MBA '71; Finance

20 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 20

Publications Market Reaction to and Valuation of IFRS Reconciliation Adjustments: First Evidence from the UK Authors: Joanne Horton and George Serafeim Publication: Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2020
News

Prognosis

of telemedicine. At MGH these virtual visits skyrocketed, allowing patients and doctors to reduce the risk of spreading the virus. How did that change come about so suddenly, after years of existing on the fringes? Robert Huckman: What we’ve seen is at least a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

Winter 2002
Article

Private Equity in Latin America: The Mexican Case

By: Roberto Charvel and Juan Carlos de Yeregui

This article describes the private equity industry in Mexico from the late 1990's to the begining of the 2000's as well as gives a potential perspective for its coming years. View Details

Keywords: Emerging Economies; Latin America; Mexico; Developing Countries and Economies; Private Sector; Asset Management; Capital Markets; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Financial Services Industry; Latin America

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August 2000
Article

Corporate Reorganizations and Non-Cash Auctions

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and S. Viswanathan

This paper extends the theory of non-cash auctions by considering the revenue and efficiency of using different securities. Research on bankruptcy and privatization suggests using non-cash auctions to increase cash-constrained bidder participation. We examine this... View Details

Keywords: Auctions; Revenue; Debt Securities; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Privatization; Capital Structure; Bids and Bidding; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Efficiency; Contracts

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24 Apr 2014
News

Private capital, public good

Tracy Palandjian (AB 1993, MBA 1997) is spearheading the development of social impact bonds (SIBs), a financial innovation designed to tackle some of the world’s most intractable social challenges. Alongside Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969)... View Details

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Managing Service Operations: Research resources for new service design

used to analyze financial data from global equity and fixed income markets, and public and private companies. Individual accounts needed. Note: Follow the access instruction on the page before accessing. LSEG Workspace Company Overview... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

A Big Deal

Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) made big news in February when his Tata Group purchased Corus, the Anglo-Dutch steel producer, the Financial Times reported (February 3, 2007). The $12 billion deal was one for the record books as the largest... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

interest of the School, whose faculty engaged with the company in research projects, as the subject of case studies, and through consulting. In 1944, J. Keith Butters, HBS Assistant Professor of Financial Research, and John V. Lintner, at... View Details

16 Mar 2018
News

Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams

AwesomenessTV was sold to NBCUniversal, the timing was right. “I was wearing many hats at the studio — from business development to finance to marketing and operations. I learned a lot on the job, but thought an HBS education would... View Details

Albert H. Gordon

Gordon, with the financial assistance of Stone and Webster, acquired the venerable investment firm in 1931 when it was on the brink of collapse. Gordon helped rebuild the firm by focusing on specific niche View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Dec 2022
News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

them. Ellis draws on his long distinguished career in client services in the financial markets to provide common-sense and accessible advice to anyone with an interest in maximizing their investment returns... View Details

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

started out as a dating site here at Harvard when he was a freshman and then he saw an opportunity to move to the West Coast to really expand Phenomenal success. There literally are millions of people who want to be the next Mark Zuckerberg. The View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Sam Hayes

market is still the most efficient in the world,” he says. “Over the longer term, one can buy and hold investments and be confident that price disparities will smooth out with time and be reflective of real value.” The author and coauthor... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

08 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 8, 2006

personal data industry, must reexamine the company's business model after a serious breach of data security affecting some 145,000 U.S. citizens. He must decide on steps to strengthen data protection in the company and clarify his stance on View Details